Activity: road cycling Location: Washington, DC and Arlington/Fairfax, VA (Dupont Circle to Vienna via W&OD) Distance: 29.9 mi. Duration: 1:57 Weather: sunny and breezy, 68 degrees Max HR (bursts): 175 (beats in 10 seconds x 6) Avg HR: 160 Type: aerobic A ride on the Custis and W&OD trails to Vienna. Nice and hilly at …
Today’s farm market brought some fun new things to our kitchen: morels (one of my favorite wild mushrooms – learn about ‘em here) ramps (a wild leek, which is a local delicacy) strawberries (first of the season – yum!) blueberry scones red beets 2% organic milk lilacs We still have a lot of stuff from …
A shout out to my friend Lee, who posted a wonderful review of a Salon article on Richard Dawkins. In the article, by Gordy Slack, Dawkins explains why using religion as a basis for government and education is just plain wrong. Dawkins, a British ethnologist, talks about many modern religions acting as “a virus,” and …
“I support what I’m for and my own ideas.” – George Allen (R-VA), on “Meet The Press” this morning. Talk about Yogi Berra logic – only the person delivering this brilliance has all the intelligence of a tsetse fly. Why the people of Virginia vote for him is beyond me. And Chris Dodd …
